M&CC commence no encumbrance campaign

May 16, 2009 News

The Mayor and City Council of Georgetown (M&CC) is prepared to seize the merchandise of vendors who do not comply with the demands of its ongoing encumbrance campaign.
In order to properly maintain the aesthetics around the Bourda Market, M&CC has commenced the campaign, which will force vendors to keep the surrounding streets clear of their merchandise.
Clerk of Market, Mr. Schulder Griffith, along with Deputy Clerk of Market, Mr. Errol Brisport, yesterday visited the market to inspect the progress of the campaign, which is being monitored by the officers of the City Constabulary.
According to Griffith, vendors operating on the periphery of the markets over the years have had a tendency to extend their operation beyond a one-foot concession thus congesting the roadways.
The campaign, he disclosed, is set to target vendors along Bourda Street, Robb Street and Orange Walk and the Stabroek Market, adding that the campaign has already been introduced at the Stabroek Bazaar.
“We are placing emphasis on that because we find that over the years persons are taking advantage of the one-foot allowance that we give them they are coming out two feet and more so we are putting an end to that and we will be very firm with them to stay within the one foot space…” According to Brisport it is the expectation of the vendors that the further out they go the better the business will be. He however noted that they do not realise that by taking up the space they are killing their own business.
“They make the passage narrower and when people see things like that they tend to walk another street.”
The campaign will focus on enforcement, Brisport said, adding that if the vendors do not comply they risk having their merchandise seized and also will have to pay a fee if the constabulary has to remove any encumbrance.
“We will seize their goods…and a system will be put in place if it has to come to that because we want this to be sustained,” Griffith added. Last Monday the vendors, the two senior municipal officials visited the areas with the municipal Chief Constable with a view of outlining what has to be sustained when they are not around.
The municipality is also clamping down on persons walking and selling in and around the market as they poise an unfair competition to paying stallholders and an act that represents a contravention of the city by-laws, Griffith said.

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